September 20 in Tigers and mlb history:
1927 - Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees hits his 60th home run of the season, off Washington Senators pitcher Tom Zachary breaking the record he set in 1921.
1931 - Lou Gehrig drives in four runs to break his old American League RBI mark of 175, set in 1927. By the season's end he will have a total of 184.
1951 - The owners elect National League President Ford Frick as the third baseball commissioner for a seven-year term at $65,000 per annum.
1960 - Boston Red Sox outfielder Carroll Hardy pinch-hits for Ted Williams, who is forced to leave the game after fouling a ball off his ankle, and grounds into a double play.
On May 31, 1961, Hardy will pinch hit for rookie Carl Yastrzemski, making him the only player to go in for both future Hall of Famers.
Hardy also hit his first major league home run pinch-hitting for Roger Maris when both were at Cleveland, on May 18, 1958).
1968 - Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees hits the 536th and final home run of his major league career, a solo shot against Jim Lonborg of the Boston Red Sox in a 4 - 3 loss at Yankee Stadium.
2014: The Royals lose a key home game to the Tigers, 3 - 2, as Max Scherzer defeats James Shields. With the score tied 1 - 1 in the 6th, the Royals have a run taken back when the Tigers make a successful appeal play against Salvador Perez, who fails to retouch third base before going home following a line-out and an error. The Tigers then score twice in the 7th, with a two-out pinch single by Tyler Collins the key blow. The Royals manage to cut the lead by one in the 8th and place two men on with one out in the 9th, but Joe Nathan induces two ground outs to get the save, dealing a serious blow to Kansas City's postseason hopes.
Tigers players and managers birthdays:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Chuck_Dressen
http://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/dressch01.shtml
Chuck Dressen manager 1963-1966.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Tom_Tresh
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/treshto01.shtml?redir
Tom Tresh 1969.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/ribande01.shtml?redir
Dennis Ribant 1968.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/tatajo01.shtml
Jordan Tata 2006-2007.
from baseball reference
